Jason White <jasonw@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au> writes: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:53:18PM +0100, Gilles Casse wrote: > >> It would be great to have in the future a Orca-like for embedded >> environment such as mobile. > > And not only for those. When KDE 4 supports accessibility API's, I doubt they > will want to bring in a whole plethora of Gnome dependencies to run Orca or > LSR - and it would be nice not to have yet another screen reader/magnifier > package for KDE, requiring its own development effort. This topic is well understood in the accessibility developers community, and as I understand it, most parties agree that it would be a good step to get rid of the CORBA dependency of at-spi and move over to DBus. DBus would be acceptable to the KDE people, and some GNOME people would also be content with such a move. And since DBus is finally on all modern systems (hald uses it), it makes sense to just use one IPC mechanism. It is just a matter of allocating the manpower required to actually do the changes. In fact, since Trolltech is finally really interested to get their accessibility act together due to legislation issues, I see a small danger that they will try to do their own thing anyway if cooperation with existing technologies on Linux doesn't move forward fast enough. I hope such a disaster can be avoided by proper communication. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang@db.debian.org : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
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